Comments on: 4 ways of consuming news – and what news sites should do about it http://www.betatales.com/2009/05/28/4-ways-of-consuming-news-and-why-news-sites-should-prepare-their-content-for-all-of-them/ Exploring digital media trends Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How newspapers offer less Unique Value than before | BetaTales http://www.betatales.com/2009/05/28/4-ways-of-consuming-news-and-why-news-sites-should-prepare-their-content-for-all-of-them/comment-page-1/#comment-4672 How newspapers offer less Unique Value than before | BetaTales Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:38:23 +0000 http://www.betatales.com/?p=485#comment-4672 [...] A typical subscription newspaper is nothing near as strong in Unique Content as it used to be. The reason is obvious: News has become a commodity and content is abundant on the web. People can get most of the content in a newspaper for free on the web in addition to similar content from numerous other sources. And this trend is accelerating as more content is becoming available on the web and aggregated in more useful ways. [...] [...] A typical subscription newspaper is nothing near as strong in Unique Content as it used to be. The reason is obvious: News has become a commodity and content is abundant on the web. People can get most of the content in a newspaper for free on the web in addition to similar content from numerous other sources. And this trend is accelerating as more content is becoming available on the web and aggregated in more useful ways. [...]

]]> By: The disaggregation of news | BetaTales http://www.betatales.com/2009/05/28/4-ways-of-consuming-news-and-why-news-sites-should-prepare-their-content-for-all-of-them/comment-page-1/#comment-2818 The disaggregation of news | BetaTales Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:30:06 +0000 http://www.betatales.com/?p=485#comment-2818 [...] short: People now have a number of different ways to consume news, as I have blogged about [...] [...] short: People now have a number of different ways to consume news, as I have blogged about [...]

]]> By: Asya Shalimova http://www.betatales.com/2009/05/28/4-ways-of-consuming-news-and-why-news-sites-should-prepare-their-content-for-all-of-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1654 Asya Shalimova Sat, 30 May 2009 22:39:54 +0000 http://www.betatales.com/?p=485#comment-1654 Great post! Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts, added you on twitter. Great post! Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts, added you on twitter.

]]> By: John Einar Sandvand http://www.betatales.com/2009/05/28/4-ways-of-consuming-news-and-why-news-sites-should-prepare-their-content-for-all-of-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1219 John Einar Sandvand Tue, 12 May 2009 22:14:56 +0000 http://www.betatales.com/?p=485#comment-1219 Thanks for your reply! Actually I think Delicious, Reddit and Digg could be included in point 4 - peer-edited news streams. I will update my post to include that. And yes: I agree that Norwegians sites should allow embedding. Probably we could be much more open in other ways of distributing our content as well. Before you would always pull users to your site. In the new world you also need to distribute your content to where your users prefere to consume it. Thanks for your reply!
Actually I think Delicious, Reddit and Digg could be included in point 4 – peer-edited news streams. I will update my post to include that.
And yes: I agree that Norwegians sites should allow embedding. Probably we could be much more open in other ways of distributing our content as well. Before you would always pull users to your site. In the new world you also need to distribute your content to where your users prefere to consume it.

]]> By: Espen Sundve http://www.betatales.com/2009/05/28/4-ways-of-consuming-news-and-why-news-sites-should-prepare-their-content-for-all-of-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1217 Espen Sundve Tue, 12 May 2009 21:26:31 +0000 http://www.betatales.com/?p=485#comment-1217 Great post. More publishers should think in such a way. I have one additional way of finding news. I use both Delicious, Reddit and Digg to discover what other people read and share. Twitter is also great for peer-edited news, but if I miss the feed I can always go back to the bookmark-sites. With respect to "2. Encourage and make it easy for your users to share your content" I can't see why the news sites in Norway simply don't allow me to embedd and share their video clips? They all seem to hold on to the video clips, which is a shame, because both the brand, the news site link and the ad can follow the video. Great post. More publishers should think in such a way.

I have one additional way of finding news. I use both Delicious, Reddit and Digg to discover what other people read and share. Twitter is also great for peer-edited news, but if I miss the feed I can always go back to the bookmark-sites.

With respect to "2. Encourage and make it easy for your users to share your content" I can't see why the news sites in Norway simply don't allow me to embedd and share their video clips? They all seem to hold on to the video clips, which is a shame, because both the brand, the news site link and the ad can follow the video.

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